Principal Engineer (£160k + benefits)

Morson Edge; Manchester; A distancia; GBP 96.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Remote-first with occasional on-site

Descripción de la vacante

Morson Edge are hiring a Principal Engineer for a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering. You will be the go-to technical expert on client projects, responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of engineers around you.

You will deal with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO, framing technical decisions in business terms. AI is core to the role, setting up AI and context engineering, selecting tools and mentoring the team in AI fluency.

Formación

• Experience leading architecture and technical direction on client projects.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise team capability.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled software engineering and trusted decision-making.

Responsabilidades

• Own architecture and technical direction on client engagements.
• Mentor and raise the level of engineers around you.
• Engage with stakeholders up to CTO/CEO level and frame decisions in business terms.
• Set up AI context engineering, choose tools, and ensure pragmatic delivery.

Conocimientos

Distributed systems

Cloud and IaC

Data pipelines

Vector stores and embeddings

AI assisted engineering

Consulting and stakeholder management

Herramientas

Java

Node.js

.NET

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

Descripción del empleo

Great opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join a software consultancy at the forefront of AI-native software engineering.

The company employs around 500 people, works with a mix of large enterprises and fast-growing scale-ups, and their engineers are already using agents to deliver quality work for clients at a pace that wasn t possible until now.

As a Principal Engineer, you ll be the go-to technical expert on client projects and will be responsible for architecture, technical direction and raising the level of the engineers around you.

You ll be dealing with stakeholders up to CTO and CEO level, so you ll need the commercial awareness to frame technical decisions in business terms and the confidence to call out when a problem isn t a technical one.

AI is a core part of the role rather than a side skill - you ll set AI up to succeed and treat context engineering as a craft (the right files, specs, examples and constraints), pick the right tools for the job and mentor the team in AI fluency.

The culture is pragmatic and delivery focused; they value outcomes over output, build the smallest thing that works and then iterate.

Skills

• Distributed systems
• Cloud (cost and security aware) and IaC
• Data pipelines, vector stores and embeddings
• AI assisted engineering (Claude Code, agents, evals)
• Consulting and stakeholder management

You should be tech agnostic and expect to work with a variety of modern tech including Java, Node, .NET, Python, AWS, Azure, GCP etc.

The money is good too up to £160k.

Benefits

• remote first working with occasional time onsite with clients to build relationships in person.